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I had forgotten all about these as your review was a long time prior to my seeing them on the shelf. Not being a cream biscuit fan myself, I nearly didnt buy them, but luckily the other half stuck them in the trolley, as they remind me exactly of the biggest breakfast treat from my youth - a bowl of porridge laced with black treacle and cream. They are now my favorite biscuit, even surpassing the Bahlsen dark chocolate ones. Does anyone else have a favorite biscuit influenced by a love of another food I wonder?

Evening,
I read on your site about your fondness for the Lyons logo, and thought you may be interested in the story behind it. As with so many things, it's all to do with the Romans. Although they were very good at building straight roads and conquering and stuff, they were rather backward when it came to agriculture. They believed that if you were keeping bees and lost your swarm, all you had to do was kill some sort of large animal (usually a bullock) and leave it for a bit, and then a new swarm of bees would generate inside it's rotting carcass. You can read the whole story in Virgil's fourth Georgic. If you want to.

tata
dan

Nicey replies: Dan,

I thought you were going to tell me it was from the Bible again, which of course we know. Most people who like to tell us its from the Bible never actually make it to the review where we mention that, before firing off an email about Samson and the book of Judges.

So its good hear a little more constructive thoughts on why you should expect to get Honey from lions. The 'Bible emails' all completely neglect the fact that bees do by and large and almost without exception prefer hollows in trees to rotting animal carcasses as a place to build a hive. The whole Winnie the Pooh thing would have been a lot more grisly if this where not so.

I suppose this is a matter of faith by its very nature. For Christians if the Bible says you get honey from lions then you do. No doubt there are strong links between the two.

Perhaps some of our South African readers would care to tell us in bee hives in dead lions is something known about in their country.

"We love the barking mad Lyle's syrup logo, of a dead lion with bees all round it, which the packs have emblasezend upon them. If only all product logos were this odd."

The logo is, of course, emblazoned for a reason:

Judges 14:8
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

hence "Out of the strong came forth sweetness", which I've always viewed as an indication that the sweetness of strong tea does not need added sugar.

I suspect that your site is entirely secular, and lacks a spiritual element.

L.

Praise the Lord that I don't have a television and haven't seen you on it.

Nicey replies: Well actually if you had actually followed the link to the review you would have read that we were of course aware of the Biblical reference, and mention this. We are also aware of Mr Lyle's religious convictions which led him to choose this logo for his company.

Also you'd best not listen to the radio or read the papers because I appear in those too at the moment.

Abram Lyle was a famous son of Greenock, Scotland, near where I live. The Lyle fountain stands in the central square in Greenock, but sadly does not pour forth syrup. A brief biography of Mr Lyle tells us he inherited his uncle's business as a cooper and fishing-smack owner. Thankfully we don't smack fish in Greenock any more, but sadly there is precious little sugar-making either.
Incidentally, Lyle the Greenockian never met Mr Tate of sugar cube and art gallery fame.

dear kind sir, i writin to inform as to the reason for said cool logo. its from a part of the 'sampson and delila' story from the old testamont of de bible. its from the bit where sampson sees a dead lion full of bees. this is also the reason why 'sampson' rolling tobacco has a picture of a lion on the front (i prefer cutters choice though cos it tastes nicer). tom.

Nicey replies: Thanks for that Tom, we actually alluded to that in the review. Have you developed your writing style to deliberately annoy MS Word? If so, well done.